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Lawyers don’t like pronouns because they (pronouns, that is, not lawyers) tend to be shorter and more idiomatic than repeated use of the nouns to which they (the pronouns, not the {{tag|noun}}s) might, if they were used, relate.
Lawyers don’t like pronouns because they (pronouns, that is, not lawyers) tend to be shorter and more idiomatic than repeated use of the nouns to which they (the pronouns, not the {{tag|noun}}s) might, if they were used, relate.


The official excuse has probably something to do with imprecision (“he”, “she”, “it” or “they” can ambiguously refer to the subject or object in a sentence: unlike those ultra-precise Germans, we Englanders only half-heartedly [[decline]] our [[noun|people, places or things]]) despite the fact that they work perfectly well in any other linguistic context. Lawyers have their own form of {{tag|pronoun}} - the {{tag|definition}}.
The official excuse has probably something to do with imprecision: “you” and “it” can ambiguously refer to the {{tag|subject}} or {{tag|object}} of a sentence: unlike those ultra-precise Germans, we Englanders only half-heartedly [[declension|decline]] our [[pronoun]]s. For all that, the Engish language — complete with pronouns — works unambiguously well in most other linguistic contexts. Besides, Lawyers have their own special form of {{tag|pronoun}} - the {{tag|definition}}.


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